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  • Name Great Eastern Photographic and Advertising Company  
    Gender Unknown 
    Business Address/Year Jun-25 Jul 1888  Vancouver, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Powell and Carrall Sts.
    behind Ferguson Block
    Vancouver, BC
    Canada 
    Business Address/Year 30 Aug-26 Sep 1888  Victoria, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Government and Courtenay Sts.
    Victoria, BC
    Canada 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) 1880s-1890s  Nanaimo, BC; Tacoma, WA; Portland, OR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Association Fletcher, T.J. (Relationship: Employee) 
    Association Gardiner, Roswell H. (Relationship: Manager) 
    Person ID I229  Camera Workers | G, vol. 1, 1858-1900
    Last Modified 14 Jan 2017 

  • Documents
    Great Eastern Photographic and Advertising Co.'s letter ad, <i>Nanaimo Free Press</i>, 1 Aug 1888, p. 3.    		Great Eastern Photographic and Advertising Co.'s letter ad, Nanaimo Free Press, 1 Aug 1888, p. 3.
    This notice provoked a sardonic reply from one of Nanaimo's resident photographers, W.P. Coughlan in the 4 Aug 1888 issue under the title "Oh, Photographic, Is It?"

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Studio (itinerant).
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Operated by T.J. Fletcher in Nanaimo and by R.H. Gardiner in Victoria, the company turned up in Vancouver and moved on to Nanaimo on 25 Jul 1888 where Fletcher exchanged letters to the newspaper with local photographer W.P. Coughlan. The company then transferred to Victoria in late Aug and remained there for a month or so. Gardiner subsequently returned to Victoria in Nov 1888 to honour orders placed just prior to his company's move from Victoria to Puget Sound.
    • IDENTIFYING MARKS: Landscape views (approx. 8 x 10 in.) taken in Vancouver bear a number on the print surface ranging from at least "96/C" to at least "142/C"; the front of the print mount may be marked "The Great Eastern Photographic and Advertising Company." "Great Eastern Photo and Advertising Co." on front of cabinet portrait (BVICA). "Great Eastern Photo. & Advertising Co. R. H. Gardiner, Manager, 285 Goldsmith St., East Side, Portland, Oregon" on front of print mount (ORHS).

  • Sources 
    1. [S64] COLLECTION: BNCM.

    2. [S45] COLLECTION: BVAA.

    3. [S139] COLLECTION: BVICA.

    4. [S156] COLLECTION: ORHSOC.

    5. [S581] David Mattison, Mattison (1979 05), (Vancouver History 18, no. 3 (May 1979):9-15).